The richness of Islamic art entranced Louis and Jacques Cartier, two of the founder’s grandsons, who weaved references to it throughout jewellery and artefacts from the 1920s onwards. It is an ...

The rise of political Islam is closely linked to the birth of the modern state in Muslim societies and the exclusion of religion from the public space In 1994, Harvard University Press published the ...

Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world. Islamist political movements, ...

‘COMPATIBLE’ means something that is capable of existing or performing in a harmonious, agreeable and congenial combination with something else. Muslims today are confused about the compatibility of ...

Recently, a permanent secretariat entitled “Secretariat of Modern Islamic Civilization” has been established in the Leader’s Representative Office at the University of Tehran, in which, the ...

For Muslims, the First World War changed everything. What we think of today as modern Islam - assertive, self-confident, sectarian - is the product of the worldwide tumult of the Great War. Seeing all ...

Explain to your students that you will be examining the religion of Islam and how it fits in with modern society. Begin by asking your students, as a whole class, to brainstorm a list of things that ...

In March 2002, Saudi newspapers reported an incident that took place in Mecca, the Prophet Muhammad's birth-place. The incident should have caused a public outcry, investigations and prosecutions, but ...

Building a new mosque is often a hot-button topic in Germany. Euro-Islam architecture is paving the way to bridging the cultural gap. German mosques are rarely impressive and grand. Islamic houses of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Heaven’s Bankers, Inside the Hidden World of Islamic Finance, by Harris Irfan, Constable/Overlook Press, ...